Class Teacher: Miss Elliott

Supportive Teaching Team: Miss Williams

Term one

Our term value: thankfulness

Learning enquiry: why do people invade and settle?

Writing: Daily whole class writing lessons take place throughout the week. The children will start Year 5 by exploring the book Arthur and The Golden Rope. They will be writing to entertain, innovating their own version of the story. 

Maths: we have daily maths lessons after break, which begin with a starter activity practising our oracy skills and mathematical understanding. We use a mastery approach within our mathematical journey. This term we are covering the following areas: 

• Decimal fractions
• Money

We will be doing daily fluency in maths, using Mastery of Number and regular practice of our arithmetic skills. 

We complete daily times table practice, focusing on different times table facts. Children are expected to practice their times tables using Times Table Rock Stars, a daily leader board is displayed in class.

Enquiry

Why do people invade and settle?

Our learning enquiry has a history and geography thread running throughout. The children will revisit their previous learning of place and what has come before us. The class will have opportunities to practice existing skills and learn new geography field work skills throughout the year. 

We are learning about why civilisations have invaded and settled in different countries. We will do this by answering some mini-enquiries.

• Who stood before us?
• What is invasion?
• Why do people invade?
• What did the Vikings travel for?
• What did the Vikings trade?
• How did the invasions change Britain?
• Is it right to invade?

During the Science lessons, the class will explore materials and states. We will have practical hands-on lessons to build our curiosities and understanding. 

PSHE: This term Year 5 will be being me in our world. The PSHE lessons are designed to involve discussion and collaborative learning. 

Art and DT: Year 5 will be exploring drawing from perspective and the techniques involved. 

Home learning

For home learning, children should be doing the following every week: 

• Reading as often as possible - ideally 5 times a week
• Practising times tables on TT rockstars (go into jamming and select the times table to practise)
• Spelling shed - complete the assignment (specific words) set each week

TT Rockstars: https://ttrockstars.com/

Spelling Shed: https://www.spellingshed.com/en-gb/